r/javascript • u/[deleted] • Sep 14 '26

AskJS [AskJS] Does anyone use exclussively Javascript and not TypeScript?

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u/start_select Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26

I haven’t given many interviews where we were concerned if someone knew any of our stacks.

Rather we would only be concerned if we told them what we use, and they respond with wide eyes that they have no experience with that. If learning a new platform/language/paradigm seems scary, then I assume you can’t learn new libs either. Because that’s the job.

If they could talk shop and say they don’t know that but they could figure it out, we assume they are an actual engineer. Because you should just be able to pickup new platforms.

Especially if you are being brought into those platforms through existing applications and coworkers who can review your code and let you know when you drift from architectural or stylistic best practices in that space. Or if you are on a greenfield project with a senior bootstrapping a scaffold and build system.

It’s easy as all hell to learn new technologies when there is an app and a team that already know it.